Imprecate
Origin
From Latin imprecari ("to invoke (good or evil) upon, pray to, call upon"), from in ("upon") + precari ("to pray").
Full definition of imprecate
Verb
- (transitive) To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
- (transitive) To invoke evil upon; to curse; to swear at.
- 1851, Herman Melville, ,To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter over to a seething sea; ...